Comedy author Invoice Dare, – who labored on exhibits together with Spitting Picture and Lifeless Ringers – has died after an accident abroad, his agent mentioned.
Described as a “super producer” by his friends, Dare, 64, labored on eight collection of vastly widespread satire puppet present Spitting Picture.
Airing on ITV through the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, the present delighted in lampooning public figures together with politicians, celebrities and royalty, profitable BAFTAs and Emmys. It was rebooted in 2020.
Dare additionally created Lifeless Ringers, a comedy impressions present broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Dare labored on a variety of comedy exhibits throughout his profession, together with the radio manufacturing of The Mary Whitehouse Expertise within the late Nineteen Eighties and early Nineteen Nineties. He had additionally written a number of novels.
In an announcement launched on Monday, his agent JFL Company confirmed he died on the weekend.
A spokesperson mentioned: “We are shocked and greatly saddened to have to announce the death of our brilliant client Bill Dare, who died at the weekend following an accident overseas.
“Our ideas are along with his spouse Lucy, daughter Rebecca, and with all of Invoice’s household and associates who might be devastated by his loss.
“Bill was a truly legendary producer and writer, and his comedy instincts were second to none.”
Picture:
Oasis depicted on Spitting Picture in 1996. Pic: ITV/Shutterstock
Colleagues have been fast to pay tribute and mirror on his expertise.
Impressionist Jon Culshaw wrote on X: “It’s impossible to express the unreal sense of loss at the passing of the incredible Bill Dare. The wisest comedy alchemist and the dearest, dearest friend. Much love to Lucy and all Bill’s family and friends. We shall all miss him more than we can say.”
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David Baddiel posted on the social media platform: “Just heard that the original producer of The Mary Whitehouse Experience on radio, Bill Dare, has died. Bill was an amazing creative force. I owe him much. RIP.”
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Former EastEnders actress Tracy-Ann Oberman mentioned she was “devastated” and that her “entire comedy career was down to Bill”.
She wrote: “When I was on the BBC Radio 4 rep company early on in career – I ran into Bill in the corridors – He asked if I was good at accents. I said yes.
“He forged me in a sketch present. I needed to do about 15 totally different accents. We recorded in entrance of a stay viewers at Broadcasting Home – afterwards Invoice mentioned ‘Why have I by no means met you – you are going to have an enormous profession’.
“He was incredibly loyal and supportive and really opened a path for me into the R4 comedy world and then TV having come out of the RSC and theatre it was all new. I will always be grateful. Fly high Bill.”
Comic and author Mark Metal wrote: “This is so grim. Bill was a compassionate hearty soul with the ability to be beautifully grumpy, a marvellously thoughtful comic mind.
“He’d argue however at all times pay attention and also you’d at all times chortle, he made one million exhibits and wished all of them to matter and would have made one million extra.”
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“Bill has been a huge part of Radio 4 comedy for decades, as a writer and producer, and listeners will have heard his legendary name at the end of many of their favourite shows.
“Invoice was a comedy obsessive, and really instinctive about making the funniest selections when it got here to writing, directing and enhancing.
“He cared so much about his work that in the production booth during Dead Ringers you’d see him crouched over the script, utterly focused on the show.
“He was humorous and really dry in particular person, amusingly cynical when he wanted to be and at all times pushed to maintain the comedy he made, and significantly satire, spiky.
“I’ve known and worked with him for 18 years and like many I can’t believe he has gone, he will leave a big hole in the comedy world and in our hearts.”
